Evening Star Newspaper, May 25, 1931, Page 1

‘WEATHER. (. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Local thundershowers this afternoon or early tonight followed by fair tonight and tomorrow; not much change in tem- perature. Temperatures—Highest, 73, at 3 lowest, 53, at 6 a.m. today. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14&15- _— Entered as second class matt WASHINGTO er & hington, D. WAR OBJECTORS DENED CTIZENSHP BY SUPRENE COLRT Fight Lost by Yale Theology Professor and Canadian War Nurse. BEARING ARMS IN ALL WARS IS HELD REQUIRED ‘Vigorous Dissent to Opinion Deliv- ! . ered by Sutherland Is Made by Chief Justice Hughes. By the Associated Press. A Yale theology professor from Can- Bda and a Canadian war nurse today were refused citizenship by the Supreme Court because of their scruples against bearing arms in time of war. One was Douglas C. MacIntosh the ®ther Marie A. Bland. Their cases have been pending be- fore the eourt for months, citizenship having ‘been held their privilege by a Circuit Court of Appeals. ! Justice Sutherland delivered the ma- | Jority opinion of the court. His view.s; coincided closely with those expressed by the court in the famous Rosika Schwimmer case, Hungarian writer and | linguist, who' was refused éitizenship be- cause of her refusal to take an oath to fight for this Government. Hughes Dissents Vigorously. Chief Justice Hughes dissented vigor- S OVER NEW ENGLAND SWEEP SKIES OF AIR “FOES” U. S. Aerial Armada Could Wipe Out Hartford in One Attack With Huge Bombers. PLANE BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON. | the wings of death, They carry the Aviation Editor of The Star. | power. 1f a great war is prosecuted, to IN FLIGHT WITH THE 1ST AIR annibilate civilization. | ~High up among the gray clouds rcar DIVISION ABOVE NEW ENGLAND, | {he waspish pur:xu planes. It is their May 25.—Like a pack of starving tim- | function to beat off enemy planes, so ber woives on the scent of their kill, |that the bombardment and attack sweeping the skies of New England on ford, prosperous and happy, on the a line hundreds of miles wide in search “':“d‘nx aogn"“c“' Ever‘ On the wing are 34 heavy bombardment planes, :;e'd:‘:;u::':h:“;'y w'x“"d up by"cnpshlz of carrying a total of nearly 50 tons of bombs. In a matter of a few To one who watches this great aerial | brief seconds they could turn this en- scourge in acticn, with a realization of | tire city into a churning hell of flame the awful powers of destruction riding | and the flying fragments of what an the wings of the squadrons, there instant before were homes, churches, comes a conviction that another war |schcols and factories. would te a catastrophe almost too ter- | These big bombers, cruising along in rible for the mind to grasp. | easy cross-country formation, are deadly The graceful yell:w wings which pass | weapons infinitely better than those so swiftly and easliy over this beautiful | Which wrought such destruction during lake-dotted and peaceful country are| ~(Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) DECISVE UPRISING | FOUR AIR CRASHES SEENNEARINCUBA TAKE SEVEN LIVES Unrest Is Growing, With No;Former Army Pilot Atlantic Work Available and Little City Victim—Three Die Money in Circulation. at Wallingford, Conn. BY WILLIAM H. FORT. By Cable to The Star. BY the Associated Press. Seven persons lost their lives in four Che b HAVANA, Cuba, May 25.—Cuba to- | airplane accidents yesterdsy. One was ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION N, D. C, MONDAY, MAY ening Sfar. 25, 1931—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. ##% “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papes Sal Sunday’s rs are printed. rday’s Circulation, 113,067 Circulation, 122,75 s Associated pres. TWO CENTS. GIRL SWIMS EIGHT HOURS T0 SAVE SELF AS YOUTH DROWNS Hilda Morrison, 18, Reaches Virginia Shore After Battle With Gale-Swept River. CANOE CAPSIZES WHILE PAIR HANG TO FISH NET No Trace of Alvin Nevitt, 20, Found After Ride Across Poto- mac at Colonial Beach. ! ] | | Batling her way through the chilly | waters of the Potomac for eight hours Miss Hilda Mcrrison, 18 years old, of Cherrydale, Va., reached the shore be- low Colonial Beach after her companion on a canoe trip, Alvin James Nevitt, 20 years old, 1011 B street northeast, | is believed to have been drowned in a | gale Saturday afternoon, it was dis- | closed today. & Miss Morrison, daughter of Charles W. Morrison of Cherrydale, c-nfined to ber bed at her parent’s Colonial Beach cottage, today told the story how she | and Nevitt, who had been visiting at | the c-ttage, decided on Friday night to | paddle from the Virginia to the Mary- | land shore. They started at 6:30 o'clock | Siturday morning. The river is about 7 miles wide at this point. 7 Wind Springs Up. ‘The trip across; although tiresome, | RIOT OF 600 OVER, | | TROOPS SENT HOME Marine’s Situation Taken Well in Hand By First Lady’s Dog By the Associated Press. President Hoover's week end at his Rapidan camp developed an incident in which the Marines | | | THREE PERSONS DIE INTRAFFC CRASHES HOOVER 10 TRIM POST OFFICE COST BY 553,000,000 President Returns From Rap- idan After Hearing Depart- ments Outline Economies. 44-HOUR WEEK TO ADD TO BROWN’S EXPENSES Senator Robinson 1s Reduc- tions in Face of Pleas to Spend Money. By the Associated Press. President Hoover returned to his desk today with little hope of eliminating the Post Office Department deficit this year, but with the expectation of trim- ming its expenditures by $53,000,000. Of this amount $38,000, has been saved during the present fiscal year, which ends June 30, and the remainder is expected to be lopped off during the next fiscal year. The presidential party left the Rapi- dan camp about daybreak today and motored leisurely to the Capital over dirt roads made slippery by last night's severe rainstorm. Most of the officials who participated in the conferences re- turned yesterday. Takes in $13,000,000. An official announcement of the con- ference sald the $15,000,000 saving for next year took into consideration a Four Vandalia Prisoners Are! | did notiand and get the situation a mail pilot. The others were civilians. ously. He sald that Congress had not | Tequired all applicants for citizenstip to | take up arms and urged that the [ religious scruples of those opposing wnr‘ be respected. | Hughes said there was field for ac- | tivity in times of war for those opposed | to bearing arms. He insisted their re- ! ligious scruples should not exclude them | from citizenship. He said the naturalization oath was | the same as the oath of office for Fed- eral employes and insisted there had | mnever been any suggestion that an officeholder “in taking the oath must | premise t5 bear arms. ! Justices Holmes, Brandels and Stone sided with the Chief Justice. Justice Holmes' dissent at the time of the opinions. Justices McReynolds, Roberts, Van | Devarter and Butler-took the view ex- ;murs Sutherland. Hen‘l: that mn:‘ willin support ume:f“rn'dl-llh“m and that a person asking for citizenship s "'t'h“‘ it be given the power to nation tha call its citizens to its defense in time of stress. a 1 | | engaged was a just one. m"?‘;‘:ibjfnua said the case was ruled | by the decisicn in the Schwimmer w:,; She was also denied the right to Cltl-‘ zenship because she refused to take up arms. | Hughes nld( ci: was no‘zl quufio;fit;( h wer ofCongress . :a:y Rervice, but whether it had required | all applicants to agree to take up arms. | Delivers Opinion Emphatically. ‘The Chief Justice said Congress had not made such a requirement and that | the court was not required to give! effect to executive h:e$r;nen:r ‘::lmn escribing a prom! ar - vr::s:n(ru: muvnm decide, he said, who will | bear arms in case of war, and the in- | dividual cannot be permitted to decide 50 long as it is necessary to_the life | of the Nation in the event of war to, ide fighting forces. nrafllur’;‘uflsm4 he said, must always i be regulated by Congress, which alone has the right to determine who must bear arms in defense of the Govern- ment. DUEL THEORY SCOUTED IN DEATH OF DOCTOR New York District Attorney Ques- tions Widow of Physician Found Shot. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, May 25.—District At- torney Willlam F. X. Geaghan today scouted the theory that Dr. Joseph T Loughiin, prominent Brooklyn physician whose body was found in the Marine | Park section yesterday, met his death as { a result of a pistol duel. While police were seeking his cousin, Howard Bridgetts, 30, with whom the physician had a rendezvous after a quarrel in Loughlin home, Mr. Geaghan was questioning Mrs. Loughlin. Bridgetts, according to stories of the widow and others, visited the Loughlin ‘hcme Saturday night while Leon Sach- ter, a lawyer, was present trying to ef- fect a reconciliation betwesn Dr. Lough- lin and his wife, who had been es- tra; z Tales, the police state, had been { brought to Mrs. Loughlin, and partly by Bridgetts, that her hus- band had been in company of other ™ Fhe physician, acco to investt gation npf {l‘! lice, had cl jed Brid- getts with bel the tale bearer, and mn;andnml\o:dt':; the b::uo an.uru{ night devel a r A D‘r‘, Loughlin, it was stated, chal Bridgetts to “fight it out” in the back of the Loughlin home, Bi day is closer to a decisive revoluiion than at any time since the Spanish oc- cupation. This is sald advisedly, in Hundreds of Army airplanes engaged in maneuvers safely. . | phia. spite of the fact that there have been| C2pt. James H. Ritter, 38, former sporadic outbreaks from time to time Army fiyer and pilot for 15 years, ever since Cuba was made a republic. | crashed 75 feet to his death at Atlantic arrivel on the island, the visitor, | City, N. J., Airport, in an exhibition of if he is at all cbservant, becomes im- | take-cffs before 5,000 spectators. He mediately aware of the tense feeling | was half owner of the alrport. The under which the poople are lving. plane fell just after taking off. Mrs. After Journeying thiough the interlon | Bitter and ‘two children live in Johns- celing 1s intensified rather than | ouie pa’ At Wallingford, Conn., Raymond B. It is more than ever evi- dent that behind the present disturbing | pecorkle, pilot; Jack Cole and Francis Cobey were killed when an airplane conditions lies mass of resentment deep-seated and n only a zmall s excuse to transform it into active UP- | ooy oo ee Mase e T0g the local aire |of fiying every evening for pleasure. rising. Havana fcr several months has been under martial law. Until recently this | X ot sommmi | T e o East Berlin, Two Killed in Nebraska. | _ Guy Sél‘:ckhndfl;fl"wtyne, !;';?r,, and | Wayne Putbam 3 ., were 3P | kitled dsy when & plane Strick- land was piloting struck a down current of air and went into- a tailspin ab Wayne. His plane caught in the fury of a' post-Winter snowstorm on the peak of Nittany Mountain, neer Bellefonte, Pa., Alr Maifl Pilot James D. Cleveland crashed to his death. Flames from bl:‘mhlil:‘ tl:lp n::x;a ;wnmmu awalt- €t 8 n a . ‘The pilot’s charred body, wedged in the twisted, blackened cockpit, was reached five hours later, where plane crashed after careening 500 feet through boulders and shrubs. clcvehndk "13:: by lncahuht‘zl::lgr x rugged peak, beyond w] y Bellefonte Airport, ‘his destination, ac- cording to alrport workers who viewed the scene of the wreck and who were preparing for Cleveland’s landing when they noticed the glow in the sky. 1,000 Pounds of Mail Lost. Supreme Court Holds Philadelphia 215 o¢ the National Alr Trans- port, operators of the alrmail line, said Ex-Sheriff Subject to Con- | 3 B0y e? unable to estimate the 3 | value of the 1,000 pounds of mail con- tempt Trial. sumed by the Sames in Cleveland's | plane. The aviator left New York for Cleve- By the Associated Press. | land at 10:30 (Eastern standard time) Tke Supreme Court today ruled that | gatyrday night. He was on cus- Thomas W. Cunningham, former Phil- | tomary route, the one he had been fol- little uneasiness on the part of the adminis- Today, however, there are very few mnmA They are all 2t : Even the (Contiued on Page 4, Column 8.) o VARE CASE WITNESS MUST APPEAR HERE/ | adelphia sheriff, must come to Wash- | lowing since’ he was transferred last ington for trial on eharges of contempt | RUTTCT o Kaness SU Jrom Wherd of the Senate arising from his refusal | through last Winter he successfully to reveal the source of $50,000 he con- | - tributed to the 1926 senatorial primary | 23(t16d blizzards over the dangerous sghenies. campai of lam S. Vare. "The Gectsion reversed a ruling of the | Cieyeland s vomarmed. Circuit Court of Appeals at Philadel-| "0, )./ 0, SR N o ag0 o Join R, Justice Sutherland, in delivering the | & opinion, stated the question was whether | Investigating. the Commlmnlnl:;gu':lkc in Philldler:-‘ .~ phia had the pass upon the question of sufficiency of the indictment AlRPLANE SPEED or whether that must be left for the trial court. | He said the Philadelphia court had exceeded its authority and should have approved the removal of Cunningham to Washington, where he could -chal- lenge the validity of the indictment on the grounds of relevancy. MARK BROKEN IN ENGLAND to Have Exces®~d 1920 Record i of 357 Miles Per Hour. A S By the Associated Press RAIN BARS GAME | CALSHOT. England, May 25—The | world's _atrpiane t - miles per our, made b; juadron Washington-Boston Contest Leader August H. Orlebar 1yn ls;zz" was Called Off. reported today to have been broken several times by pilots in training for BOSTON, May 25 (4%).—The base ball | the Schneider Cup races, game between Washington and Boston| While the figures have not been was called off today because of rain.|given out, it was understood that pilots 1s | The two- clubs will open their scries to- | exceeded 360 miles per hour while driv- | Good. morrow. ing racing seaplanes in trial flights. 300-MILE HIKE TO WASHINGTON, PULLING TWO IN CART, PLANNED Third Child of Goldsboro, N. C., Family Will Go Along on Two-Wheel Scooter. By the Assoctated Press. | with a cypress pen and matchholder GOLDSBORO, May 25.—To walk the | carved by Boy Scouts of Goldsboro. 300 miles from Goldsboro to Washing- | .:';;l o u'i;rrygezmn:, ads” on &u ton, D. C., and pull two of his 10 chil- | entirely as a “sporting pr:po:fi:n." He dren in a goat cart is the vacation |will depend on the sale of posicards plan of O. C. Liles, 48-year-old care- gfi‘g‘nt ——— ond Tupport of the taker of the Wayne County Memorial | Jio ‘wagon' ia belng cemmrostis® pir cofl\gm:lz.ymngl leave here June 5 and | Goldsboro A ey the R i By ] by mfi""flm S - ——— arles, 8, lys, 11, This Summer's hike will be the sec- the wagon, which is 48 inches long and | ong walking ven Liles 19 inches wide. It will carry the lone | carried his chllu:xeel?,n '1:‘::' pae slogan, “Goldsboro, N. C., to Washing- | 1jles challenged, as the tree-sitting ton, D. C” The party will return bY | craze was at its height, that if some- train, body would provide the wagon and Roy Liles, 14, will accompany his|keep up his family while he was gone, father, brother and sister. He will trav- | he would walk from Goldsboro to el on a “scooter,” s two-wheel vehicle, | Gre: and pull two of his kids. which he will propel :memnl on it | The offer was accepted, and he walked with one foot and pushing it along with | the 136 miles in 41 hours and 35 min- the other. u.mmzm;m. He pulled Charles and Gladys the ¥ Liles to make the Washington %:y ;lyc of wnnon' and Rocky Counell. e and Petersburg his | life. | E. Pfennig. division superintendent, in | Schneider Cup Aspirants Reported | speed record of 357 and stesdily, with on was uneventful and the couple stayed for several hours on the Maryland | Shore before attempting the return | trip. During the time that they were on shore, she said, a steady wind had come up. but when they started back it was not of cufficient velocity to a’arm them. When they had got a long distance from shore, however, @ gale sprang up and both became completely exhausted in their attempts to the canoe to its course. Pinally, she said, they were unable | to paddle further and stopped beside | some poles supporting a fish net. As rested the increased in volume until the canoe capsized. Both grabbed the and clung there until they decl that it was a case or death and that each would | have to strike out on his own. Removing their clothing in order to swim better, they struck out in what they believed was the direction of the | vi . Miss Morrison was | lea: and the last tha saw of Nevitt he was following her at some distance. Lay Exhausted on Shore. The rest of the swim, she sald, was a veritable nightmare, in which she | | e, remember little but her battle for | At some time during Saturday t, she says, she reached shore. She she lay on the beach for some time before attempting to walk. She does remember, however, of seeing an old barn near the shore and made her | way to that. Once inside the barn she found some old life preservers with which she attempted to cover herself | s until daylight. At dawn she saw smoke rising from over a knoll and made her way to the home of a family named Bowman. She discovered then that she was ! about half way bstween Colonial Beach and Wakefield. Aftr making her as comfortable as possible with food and clothing, Bowman placed her in his automobile and brought her to Colonial Beach. A search for Nevitt's body has been | | 1 unsuccessful. ~Searchers found a canoe | paddle to which -vas tied Nevitt's trench coat and shirt. This was tied to th2 net and was apparently intended as a signal. It was said hers that Miss Morrison, a girl friend, who has been fll, and an aunt of the former, came to the cottage several days ago so the friend might attempt to regain her health. Nevitt, it was said, was a friend of the sick irl, and when he came to see her was vited by the aunt to spend several days. It was during the course of this stay that the trip was planned. Was Good Swimmer. Nevitt left his home for Colonial Beach Thursday for a fishing trip and outing, relatives said today. ‘The family had received no word of young Nevitt tcday, but last night got word of the canoe being overturned | and with it the message that a man’s | footprints had been found on the beach ! nearby, but no one had seen Nevitt. ‘The family expressed the hope that he may have swum ashore or been picked up by some boat. Nevitt was an excellent swimmer, they say, and some years ago won a big swiming event at Alexandria, Va., where he lived before coming to this city. Nevitt's father, Leroy Nevitt, and brother, Otis Leroy Nevitt, left for Co- lonial Beach today to aid in the search | for him. Other relatives of the boy are his mother and sister, Mrs. Gladys . The parents and sister reside at the B street address, while the brother lives near Sixth street and Flor- ida avenue. The mother w ffering from shock and grief today upon the re- rt of her son being lost, but had re- used doctor’s care, it was said. MANY BEST STOCKS REACH NEW LOWS U. S. Steel Down to $95—Losses of $2 to $4 Recorded by Market Leaders. | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 25.—The stock market began the new week today still at its favorite pastime of recording new low prices. Although trading was in small volume, prices sank rapidly and losses of $2 to more than $4 a share were numerous. United States Steel common declined more than $3 to & new low price since 1924 at $85. Othep issues declining $3 to more than $4 a share to new lows Santa Fe Railroad, Norfolk & Western, ‘Western Union, Corn Products, East- msan Kodak and Coco Cola. ‘The market has been declining almost * occasional interrup- | started the rioting, were held in the under way since yestzrday, but has beén | &7 | ade, according to Metzger, watching the | escape. Wounded Battling Guards. | Four Buildings Burn. By the Associated Press. VANDALIA, I, May 25.—Order re- | stored after an outbreak of 600 prison- | ers yesterday, when several bulldings | were burned and four men wounded, | National Guardsmen rushed to the Van- dalia State penal farm to quell the riot, | were ordered home today. | Col. Frank Whipp. superintendent of | State prisons, said everything was or- derly and that he expected no more trouble. Four prisoners, whose failure to escape county jail. Three of them were wound- | ed. Another prisoner, Clifford Ikes,| sentenced in Cass County for larceny, | was hit by a stray bullet as he stood inside the fence. Supt. C. A. Metzgr of the farm said Ikes had no part in the jail break attempt. | ing hall were shattered. Supt. Metzger | of the farm estimated the total damage | at $10,000. Quite a number of the 600 inmates, | all under sentences of less than a year, have been sullen for several days, Metz- ger said. About a week ago the su- perintendent said he was tipped off that been planned. Metzger | tioned guards in a corn field adjoin- | ing the outer fence. Scale Fence With Ladder. Last evening four men, Charles J.| Rogers, Kane County; Willlam D.| Simonds, Winnebago County; Arthur Ragan, Jackson County, and Charles | Lewis, McDonahue County, scaled the | inner 5-foot barbed-wire fence with a | ladder, which they then placed against the outer 12-foot birbed-wire fence. | As the last of the four jumped to the ound, Metzger said, the guards came out of hiding. After an unheeded cry of alt,” the guards fired with 12-| guage shotquns, he sald. The four men, three of whom were wounded, surrendered. ‘The rest cf the State Farm prisoners were roaming around inside the stock- | One of them, pressed closz to the inner fence, fell when a stray bul- let fired by the guards outside inflicted a slight flesh wound. This served as a signal for the general outbreak. With a roar the prisoners be- gan hurling rocks at the guards who, despite them, marched the quartet down the fence, through a passageway and into the administration building. W!(h’ this the prisoners dirccted their rocks | at the offices and the dining halls. COLLEGE SENIOR DIES OF CLASS ROOM SHOT| Tennessee Youth Had Declared In- tention to Kill Self After Unrequited Love. By the Associated Press. | MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 25.—William | N. Mitchell, jr., 19 years old, a senior | student at Southwestern, a Presby- | terian college here, was shot to death | in a class room today. i Fellow students said Mitchell had told them he was going to kill himself be- | cause of a disappointing love affair. While others of the school were in ctapel, Mitchell went to the psychology | class room. The sound of a shot| brought others to him soon afterward. He was the youngest senfor in the school and would have been graduated next Monday. His home was at| Grenada, Miss. Other students said | they gave little attention to his story | of contemplated suicide. He had told them a girl refused his attentions. | Mitchell was business manager of | the school newspaper and was regarded 25 an outstanding student. EIGHT ESCAPE PRISON Guard Breaks Hip in Fall During Frankfort, Ky., Delivery. FRANKFORT, Ky, May 25 (P).— Eight short-term prisoners escaped early today from a new dormitory of the State reformatory here, W. E. Clark, assistant to the captain of tHe guards, fell and broke his hip in chas- ing Henry Russell of Pike County, who also tried to escape. The prisoners used a blanket to climb from a window Defors gutsds saw Russel getiing. oot ore s saw e ou of the window. » ¥ Radio Programs on Page B-16 well in hand. Mrs. Hoover's Irish wolf hound, Shamrock, did the landing. He landed on a Marine and ook a nice juicy bite on his leg” Mrs. Hoover got the situation and Shamrock in hand and led the dog away. ‘The Marine was treated for his wound at the camp. PRISONER IS SLAIN ASTERM NEARS END | belteved to have been suffocated when | $! Hold-up Informant Stabbed in Penitentiary — Warden Confines.Second Convict. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE. May 25.—Blood trans- fusion and oxygen falled to save the life of Frank L. Allers, 35-year-old Maryland Penitentiary inmate, stabbed twice in the back in the prison wash room Sunday afternoon, 48 hours before release after serving a 10-year sentence for larceny. He died this morning. In 1922 his testimony as State's wit. ness sent four men to the penitentiary for life for the murder of William A. Norris, Baltmore contractor, during a hold-up. Allers admitted he was the driver of the car used in the hold-up, but was promised immunity if he turned informer. Knifed From Behind. He was attacked while taking a shower bath. His assailant, creeping up from behind, drove a knife with a 6-inch blade between his shoulders, withdrew it and plunged it in again, | this time into the spine. The man then fled. Allers’ cries brought a guard who rushed him to the penitentiary hospital. The handle of the knife was not found, leading officials to discover the | assailant had broken it off, leaving the blade in the man's body. It was re- moved by a surgeon who declared the incisions were 6 inches deep and had caused hemorrhages and paralysis of the lower limbs. Allers’ condition grew steadily worse | during the night, and about 10 o'clock | oxygen was administered. At midnight | the doctors at his bedside ordersd a transfusion. A pint of blood was ad- ministered and Allers was put to sleep. A few months after Allers had testi- | fied in the Norris case he admittsd | participation in a liquor robbery at the | Cockeysville home of Thomas B. Hooper | and was sent to jail for 10 years. ‘Warden “Knows” Slayer. Shortly after Aller's death, State's | Attorney Herbert R. O'Connor ordered | the detention in a special cell of Ed- | ward West, another prisoncr, serving 20 | years on a charge of robbery. i Warden Patrick J. Brady said the | | slayer was known, but declined to com- i perse the throng, devoted their efforts ment further, except to say that the | Norris gang was not connected with | the case. FACE ROBBERY TRIAL Three Accused of Biggest Bank Hold-up Are. Extradited. CHICAGO, May 25 with the world’s biggest bank robbery, John Britt, Thomas O’'Connor and Howard Lee, arrested in an East St. Louls raid several days ago, today were | returned to Lincoln, Nebr. to stand trial for looting the Lincoin National Bank & Trust Co. of $2,800.000. They had tried to gain freedom by habeas corpus proceedings after extr dition papers had been issued. | | | | | | and bruised. All three were brought to | Emergency Hcspital here where Bern- | accident at Waldorf, Md. yesterday | Capital Residents Killed in| | Accidents in Maryland and Virginia—Many Hurt. Three Washingtonians were killed | and one seriously injured in automo- | bile accidents yesterday in Maryland and Virginia. In each case, the drivers st control of their machines. Harry Tripp, local agent of the Met- ropolitan Life Insurance Co., died to- day at the hospital in Warrenton, Va., last of the three to succumb. Mies Helen Phillips, 19, of 426 Third street, who was riding with Tripp, is 1 | his automcbile turned over in a ditch | on the Lee Highway, rear Gainesville, | Va. Miss Phillips was thrown head | first into the ditch and was dead when extricated. Hits Warning Light. Bernard Cooley, 23, of 2 Bates road | noitheast, died of a fractured skull | after his machine crashed into a blink- as he swerved to avcid striking an- other car. The impact hurled a pot of carbide in the top of the light throu the windshield, striking , 'y on head. Clyde Cooley, 21, Bernard’s cousin, and Jerry M. Kendall, 27, both of the Bates road address, were slightly cut ard Cooley died about 7 a.m. yesterday. The accident occurred at 2 o'clock. Child Seriously Hurt. Ruth Bridget, 8, of 4102 Grant street northeast, was in a serious condition at Casualty Hospital today, following an afternoon. She was repcrted from a fractured skull, the brain and multiple lacerations of the face and body. girl, with her sister, May, 6, and Patsie Burch, 4, of Boulevard Heights, Md., was hurt when the automobile in which they were rid- ing was to have skidded on some loos> gravel and struck a tree, Miss Phillips was a student at Central (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) . suffering concussion of er traffic light near Gaithersburg, Md., tei ) Arki $13,000,000 incroase in expenses that would result from entorcemént of the 44-hour-work-week law passed by the last Congress. Eccnomies in the next year are expected to reach $28,000,000, leaving the net of $15,000,000. " A comprehensive program to increase efficiency was formulated at the con- ference which Postmaster ~General Brown snd the four Assistant Post- masters General—Glover, Philp, Tilton and Coleman—had with the President. In the tentative schedule agreed upon, neither decreased personnel nor salary cuts were included. om‘l'he nm‘c;.lul ‘I‘::‘:mnncement ‘:ald post. ice rece; year probably would be $58,000,000 below original estimates. Postmaster General Brown had esti- mated the department would have & io.ogo.goumm this year, rel man, First Assistant Post- master General, 1,000, {;d::mn this nmm 1 year w:ls due large- vacancies in personnel whici not been filled. i A decrease of 7 to 15 per cent in the bulk of mail handled since the depression began, he said, had left the po::zl service overmanned to some ex- nt. To meet this situation withcut an outright reduction of personnel, va- cancies resulting from deaths, retire- ments and discharges for cause had not been filled, he added. licy had lowered the total “Not a single employe has been dis- charged except for cause” he con- tinued. He added the decrease in reve- nues was apparent in both raflway and steamship mail, but airmail had shown a steady increase. ‘The Interior Department intends to save $17,000,000 to $19,000,00 while the Army_consolidation campaign, involv- % the disposal of 53 military posts, add to the economies. Robinson Assails Hoover. As the post office announcement was made, Senator Robinson, Democrat, ansas, criticized the President for “cutting down on post office deliveries” and “decreasing Navy Personnel.” Although “early in the panic” every one was ‘“exhorted to spend money,™ WOMEN TRAMPLED BY MOB AT BOSTON Thousands Form Swirling, Strug- gling Mass at Station After Air Show. By the Assoclated Press. BOSTON, May 25 (#)—Thousands of persons who witnessed the Army air maneuvers at Columbus Park, South Boston, today formed an almost im- penetrable mass at the Columbia sub- way station as the demonstration ended. Women and children were trampled upon, and police feared many were in- jured. Mounted officers, unable to dis- to trying to assist women with babies. Rain, which began falling soon after the air demonstration ended, added to the excitement. Mothers held their children aloft until exhausted and then : appealed to men in the crowd to help them. Groups of men formed human circles with linked hands around the women and children to protect them from the crowd. Many women fainted and one who ried out by a patrolman, who followed in the wake of a mounted officer. screams of the children and their mothers added to the confusion. Thousands of those who watched the aviators at Columbus Park had come to South Boston by subway trains and when it ended they turned en masse and tried to force their way into the comparatively small entrance. | “MARSHAL OF WHITE HOUSE” Robinson said, tne government under President Hoover's direction is engag- ing “in just such a campaign of re- duction as he specifically bound private indus to avold.” Representative Kelly of Pennsylania, a Republican member cf the House Post Office Committee, said if the “President and Posimaster General intend to cur- tail service to effect the economy in the Post Office Department it will be a bad policy and will be opposed in the next Congress.” “Increased volume of mail is the an- swer to the pcstal problem of today, and We certainly can’t get an increase by a reduction of service,” he said. Meanwhile, Secretary Mellon, in the face of decreasing income and a pro- spective deficit of $800,000,000 this year, called for revision of the tax system. He also said another deficit could be e ted next year. st Thursday the deficit $985,670,314. OPPOSE RATE REVISION. was Users of Parcel Post Appear Before - Interstate Commerce Commission. Large parcel post shippers appeared today before Commissioner Tate and Examiner Mullen at the Interstate Commerce Commission to oppose revi- sion of parcel post rates. Hearings on the proposed revision by Postmaster General Brown found a (/P).—Charged | was not immediately revived was car- | 8TOUP of shipping organizations express- ing opposition. They _included the National Council of Business Mail Users, the Chain Stores Traffic League, the Chicago Association of Commerce and various other order organizations SHOOTS WIFE, KILLS SELF AS BOY WATCHES IS NEWEST FEDERAL OFFICE : Baltimore Man Wounds Spouse and Duties Will Be to Arrange Seating of Visitors, Functions and Entertainment. By the Associated Press. ‘The social duties of the State De- partment have become so arduous that 1t has created an office to handle them. Its duties will consist of working out oroper seating arrangements for White House guests, arranging ceremonious functions and planning the entertain- ment of visiting officials. mmxnflmm-mu.m 3 of the- i Thu! mx::'erlil participal rl:l lons for ca’s tion in in- ternational conferences, has previously been done by an individual. The post hlef of division of in- concern #iself mainly jpternational parle; 1l be given to Jan Dunn of New York Cits ‘mon| mwmbowpo‘: ed of his Schmid), 50, shot and critically wound- Commits Suicide as Nephew, 11, Looks On. By the Assoclated Press. BALTIMORE, Md., May 25.—In view 11-year-old nephew, Joseph ed his wife and then killed himself today. ‘The wife, Mrs. Barbara Schmidl, po- lice led her husband for Clement | failure to obtain employment. Mrs. Schmidl was